Meaning and purpose
Dorothy Buglass reports on the recent Quaker Universalist Group conference
Over sixty participants attended the Quaker Universalist Group (QUG) annual conference, which was held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham between 15-17 May. Five speakers addressed the theme of meaning and purpose from different angles.
Tony Philpott, known to many of us from his book From Christian to Quaker: A spiritual journey from evangelical Christian to universalist Quaker, spoke on Friday evening. Meaning, itself, is a word full of difficulties and nuances, often implying something hidden, which has to be sought. He quoted four definitions from Chambers Dictionary and asked us to consider where we stood in relation to six polarities, including that of ‘having one worldview’ to ‘accepting the multiplicity’ of the universalist position and the dimension of ‘a grand meaning’ to ‘no grand meaning’.
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